Saturday 3 April 2021

What has this to do with me?

 

Imagine for a moment that you were there ... It is easy now, all these years later, to say "He is risen. He died for my sins!" But imagine you were there when it all happened.

You witnessed His arrest in the garden of Gethsemane, you followed the crowd when He was sent to His crucifixion and you stood there by the Cross and saw Him die.

How did you feel then? The chances are you did not say much but just followed silently. Understandable really. For if you said anything in protest you would probably have been arrested and perhaps beaten or killed too. So you followed silently almost acquiescing at what was happening even though you probably were not. The question that He is dying for your sins never crossed your mind. At the time, His death was not seen in this context. It was not a matter of your sins crucifying Him then.

And three days later you hear that He has been raised. Out of curiosity you run to the grave and see it empty. How do you feel now? Do you believe? Do you doubt and have your own theories as to what has happened and you tell everyone your views? Or do you continue to stay silent as you did when you followed the Cross for fear of what might happen to you?

Today ... you rejoice at His Resurrection and are grateful that He died for you. But how did you feel then? When you were there when they crucified our Lord?

WISHING ALL MY READERS

A BLESSED EASTER

FULL OF HAPPINESS JOY AND GOOD HEALTH

OFFERING A PRAYER FOR YOU ALL

GOD BLESS

29 comments:

  1. ...Victor I wish you a blessed Easter.

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  2. God bless you Victor, thanks for being a faithful blogging friend. Please have a blessed Easter! He is risen indeed!: )

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    1. Thank you Amelia. Hoping you and yours are well. Wishing you a happy and joyful Easter.

      God bless.

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  3. That's a difficult question. I don't imagine I could be so brave to witness His agony and death.
    Wishing you a most blessed Easter!

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    1. Thank you so much Mevely. Wishing you and your family great happiness, joy and good health always. Happy Easter.

      God bless y'all.

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  4. Well written, you put me there with those close and distant, It was a death, the end of a good man........... BUT THEN...
    Thanks it touched...
    Sherry & jack sending our love your way, thanks for making me think...

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    1. You are very kind Jack. Thank you so much. Wishing you and Sherry and your family great happiness and good health this Easter and always.

      God bless you and yours.

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  5. This is the best way I can say how I felt. I hope it is ok for me to share this on your blog.

    By His Wounds

    I was the darkness
    in agitated clouds
    floating in
    churning turmoil

    I was the splinter
    in roughly
    hewn wood and
    the thorns
    in a bloody crown.

    I was the nails
    that pierced
    Your hands, and the
    voice that yelled
    crucify Him!

    I was the sinner
    who mocked you,
    Yet You bore my pain
    and suffering
    and remembered
    me.

    I was the silence
    in crowd when you
    you were punished
    for my wickedness.
    My well being
    fell on you, and
    by Your wounds
    I am healed.





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    1. Thank you so much Nells for sharing this with us. I wish you great happiness and joy at Easter and also good health.

      God bless always.

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  6. Dearest Victor,
    Yes, good question and it is such a touching spiritual sung by my late Dad in his choir and here by others: https://youtu.be/BLJ0IjLAmOA
    Happy Easter to you and yours!
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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    1. Thank you for sharing this lovely hymn, Mariette. Wishing you great happiness and good health this Easter and always.

      God bless you and yours.

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  7. Happy Easter to you and yours.

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    1. Thank you so much, Bill. Best wishes to you and your family and good health always.

      Happy Easter. God bless.

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  8. Happy Easter, Victor. If I had been at the Crucifixion I would like to think I would be brave. I guess there's no way to tell.

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    1. You're right, Kathy, there is no way of knowing how we would have behaved. Happy and Healthy Easter to you and yours.

      God bless.

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  9. Have a Happy and Blessed Easter, dear Victor!
    He is risen; the Lord has risen indeed. Hallelujah!

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    1. Wishing you the best of happiness and good health to you and your loved ones, Martha.

      God bless always.

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  10. Can't say what I would have done at the Crucifixion but I sure hope I would have stood by Him!

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    1. Indeed Happyone, that is our hope also. Best wishes to you and your family always. Happy Easter.

      God bless you.

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  11. Wishing you and yours a Happy Easter.

    All the best Jan

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    1. Thank you, and the same to you and your family Jan. Happy Easter.

      God bless.

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  12. We would have been as scared and confused as anyone there.

    Have a blessed and beautiful Easter. He Is Risen!

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    1. Yes, I guess you are probably right, Mimi. Wishing you and yours a Happy and Healthy Easter.

      God bless you all.

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  13. Thank you Victor. What a prfound question. Where you there? Lord help us to feel the reality, the pain and then the glory!

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    1. Amen Wanda. We need to pray and concentrate more about what happened on that day.

      Wishing you and yours a Happy and Healthy Easter.

      God bless always.

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  14. I'm sure I would have had my doubts. Still do, the continuing of the story may be all God really wanted to teach us. Clearly his death did not go in vain, the Church has grown and thrived. His sacrifice was extraordinary.

    Blessed Easter to you!

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    1. Yes JoeH, Christ's sacrifice was not in vain. And many still doubt today.

      Happy Easter to you and yours. God bless.

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